Saint Peter's Healthcare System reviews

Physician/Resident caliber is pretty low; bottom-of-the-barrel in most specialties except maybe NICU/Maternity-related. Knowledgeable nurses are appalled by how non-proactive so many of the attendings are in addressing time-sensitive issues. Despite it being against policy, many attendings won't bother putting orders in and will spend twenty minutes fighting with the nurse to have the put the orders in rather than just doing what they're supposed to do, and there does not seem to be consequences to them. In light of the Radonda verdict, this is especially appalling. With a few notable exceptions, the majority of the residents do not have a sense of responsibility, follow-up, or even accountability for basic information they should know. As a new nurse if I have to consistently remind you that an order is inappropriate for your patient, you should be ashamed. Administrators are not supportive of nursing staff; nursing educators, higher-level nursing administrators just want their metrics to improve by squeezing more out of the nurses doing all the work instead of doing more to support them, The charting system is nominally better than messenger pigeon. In order to properly care for your patient with the limited resourcing available and to document everything properly, you regularly stay very late. With more agency nurses, we are able to compare notes on what things are like at different hospitals. It's apparently not like this everywhere; our system is truly the worst.

Leadership makes decisions based upon making the hospital attractive to a potential buyer. This means that positions are eliminated, staffing is reduced, salaries are cut. This makes for a very hostile work environment and devastates employee morale and staff satisfaction